This Week’s News
Brandon Discount Beverage adds sandwiches and pizza to offerings
By RUSSELL JONES The Brandon Discount Beverage, Liquor and Tobacco will soon offer another service to residents of Brandon. The new owners, Mohammed Bilal and Vicky Anser, have been working hard to improve and renovate the store since they bought it on March 25. “Me and Vicky have been working very hard on this,” Bilal, […]
Students get dirty raising money for trip
By RUSSELL JONES A group of enterprising young West Rutland students were challenged by their teacher to dream up a business model to help fund extracurricular activities. During that project the students learned that even doing a dirty job can be rewarding. After being given a small investment, the students returned the initial startup funds […]
Center Street is paved!
By RUSSELL JONES With new pavement laid this past weekend in a critical section of the downtown, linking the newly revised road around the Green to that section of road redone to the north of the downtown, light is truly visible at the end of that proverbial tunnel. The road construction project that has been […]
OV board will vote on Pittsford sidewalk this week
By RUSSELL JONES The Vermont Department of Transportation estimates almost 9,000 vehicles pass through Pittsford on Route 7 each day. For nearly a half-mile through the town, with Lothrop School centrally located in that stretch, the sidewalk is the same level as the road. After nearly two months of discussion, the question of whether the […]
Proctor board looks at neighborhood watch, more police
By RUSSELL JONES After the deaths of two women and a burglary in or around Proctor in the past three months, the Proctor Selectboard brought in Rutland County Sherriff Stephen Benard to talk about the recent events and the possibility of either starting a neighborhood watch or adding more police coverage. Though 24-hour coverage was […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV wrestler Isaac Whitney earns title at big N.H. meet
Otter Valley Union High School wrestling made an outstanding showing at the 2025 Annual Minickiello Wrestling Tournament in Keene, N.H., on Saturday.
OV’s Lucas Politano signs deal to play Div I golf for Rutgers U.
The Politano family of Brandon extended its golf dynasty even further last Wednedsay when OV senior Lucas Politano signed a letter of intent to play golf for Division I Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Otter Valley puts up a fight, but loses in Championship game to powerhouse Woodstock
The Otter Valley football team made an unanticipated trip to the Vermont Division 3 championship game but lost 65–14 to a fast and dominating Woodstock team that featured 13 seniors.
OV football stuns BFA Fairfax; will play division championship
Last Saturday, in a show of outstanding football, the Otter Valley Otters defeated the BFA Fairfax Bullets in a show of stellar offense and gutsy defense. On a raw day with occasional sleet, a crowd of 300 showed up in Fairfax to witness the semifinal game which looked to be a sure thing for the Bullets, who were undefeated at 10-0 versus the Otters at 5-4.
OV Football wins big in playoffs, moves to state semis
Isaac Whitney had a huge game, gaining 180 yards and scoring 4 touchdowns to lead the Otter Valley football team to a 46–14 playoff win over rival Mill River Saturday night under the new lights at Markowski Field.
